nation — English to French

How English nation is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: nation in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: nation (28 652), nations (1 827 842). By style: everyday 160 · literary 15 · biblical 576 · parliamentary 12 306 · legal and administrative 6 291 · UN documents 1 837 146.

nations

Used about 1 316 854 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 140 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 527 · parliamentary ≈ 9 358 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 505 · UN documents ≈ 1 301 312). Forms: nation, nations.

• Jews are a nation.

  Les Juifs sont une nation.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #11878396 #11878412

• “May the devil stifle the procurator of the German nation!”

  --Que le diable étouffe le procureur de la nation d'Allemagne!

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 176

• In his name, the nations will hope.”

  Et les nations espéreront en son nom.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 12:21

• Individual nation states will not and do not have a chance.

  Les États nations individuels n'auraient pas la moindre chance.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1632665

• Title of United Nations Regulation

  Titre du règlement des Nations Unies

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 253276

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• Every nation has its own myths.

  Tous les pays ont leurs légendes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and zmoo · checked, community translation · #37454 #12928

• To get the nation's economy out of the red, more foreign aid had to be pumped in.

  Afin de sortir du rouge l'économie du pays, davantage d'aide étrangère dut être injectée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by papabear and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #47901 #1919891

• This opened up to the eyes of the white nation the possibility of the black man governing the white man in these United States of America.

  Cela révéla à l'Amérique blanche la possibilité que l'homme noir gouverne l'homme blanc au sein de ces États-Unis d'Amérique.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #13848919 #13848938

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